TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTIONONE. MEANING AND FUNCTIONS OF ADVERB IN MODERN ENGLISH
.1 The Notion of Adverb in English Grammar). Classification of Adverbs According to Their Structure). Classification of Adverbs According to Their Meaning
1.2The Syntactic Functions of Adverbs
1.3 Parenthetical Adverbs and Their Peculiarities
a). The Peculiarities of Parenthetical Adverbs
b). Evaluative Adverbs as Subtype of Parenthetical Adverbs
CHAPTER TWO. MEANING AND FUNCTIONS OF ADVERBS IN THE NOVEL WHITE FANG BY JACK LONDONCONCLUSIONS
R? SUM? OF REFERENCE MATERIALS
INTRODUCTION
been neglected for a long time, adverbs and adverbials have recently moved into the center of attention of quite a number of syntaxicians and semanticists. Adverbs provide an interesting field for study. Having once been identified as perhaps the least studied and most maligned part of speech, the adverb has been widely investigated since, with little agreement arising. In English, adverbs seem to be both freely occurring and highly restricted in terms of distribution. Theories have been put forth in both the syntactic and semantic realms proposing dependency of adverb placement on specialized rules that access certain semantic factors of the adverbs themselves, on feature checking with predetermined nodes of attachment, and on scoping relations amongst adverbs themselves and amongst adverbs and verbs.the disputable question of the structure of Modern English the problem of classification of adverbs is one of the most important, the one which is very complex and seem to be relevant to a number of aspects. The problems of defining adverbs as a class constitutes one of the stumbling-blocks in studying the language, because they comprise a most heterogeneous group of words, and there is considerable overlap between the class and other word classes. They have many kinds of form, meaning and function.exist a large amount of literature on this topic. Resent years were marked with a special interest to problem of distinguishing different classifications and functions of adverbs. Works of modern linguists helps us to understand the problem. Still most of the aspects appear to be disputable.variety of approaches to the problem of classification of adverbs, the peculiarities of using them, and distinguishing different functions of adverbs have determined the subject matter of this research.aim of research consists in the frequency of using different types of adverbs and identifying their functions in the language.objective is to investigate the variety of forms of adverbs, to discover the frequency of using adverbs in different functions .part is based on the selections of the examples from White Fang by Jack London.course paper consists of introduction, two chapters, conclusions, resume and list of reference materials.one deals with the theoretical approaches to the problem under study.two contains the analysis of the examples selected from literary sources.results of research are found in Conclusions.Resume contains short overview of the course paper.List of references the books used in the research are listed.
Chapter 1. Meaning and Functions of Adverbs in Modern English
. 1 The notion of adverb in English grammar
etymology of the word adverb is the Latin ad- meaning to and uerbum raquo ;, a verb or word. An adverb is usually attached to a verb, modifying or qualifying it. It tells us the way in which the action of the verb is carried out. It may also modify an adjective.the adverb is usually defined as a word expressing either property of an action, or property of another property, or circumstances in which an action occurs. This definition, though certainly informative and instructive, fails to directly point out the relation between the adverb and the adjective as the primary qualifying part of speech.an attempt to overcome this drawback, let us define the adverb as a notional word expressing a non-substantive property, that is, a property of a non-substantive referent. This formula immediately shows the actual correlation between the adverb and the adjective, since the adjective is a word expressing a substantive property.may be of a more particular, organic order, and a more general and detached, inorganic order. Of the organic properties, the adverb denotes those characterizing processes and other properties. Of the inorganic properties, the adverb denotes various circumstantial characteristics of processes or whole situations built around processes.above definition, approaching the adverb as a word of the secondary qualifying order, presents the entire class of adverbial words as the least self-dependent of all the four notional parts of speech. ...
